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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SWBaxter" data-source="post: 2100013" data-attributes="member: 27926">I think most or all of mine have already been mentioned, but just to add some votes:- Some powers don't work well with ranks, since they're very front-loaded (by which I mean you get a big benefit from the first rank, any other ranks are comparitively marginal but cost the same). We generally house-ruled these to have a different cost structure, a high base cost plus a small cost per rank. - Fencepost conditions (events at either end of the probability curve) seem to come up a lot, due to the straight line probability "curve" of a single d20 roll. This is fine for single session scenarios, but we found it got a bit annoying in a campaign since character performance could fluctuate wildly from session to session. We switched to 2d10, and that made things better. - Power Level and the associated caps are all but useless as a balancing tool, we ended up having to carefully review each build anyway. We switched to a Champions-style approach of specifying appropriate point and effect ranges for different categories, that seemed to work better but was hard to calibrate. - As a corollary of the latter two points, combat powers below the PL of the expected opposition are very poor, and above the PL are incredibly effective. This might be intended, but it puts a huge emphasis on character efficiency that doesn't really match the rest of the "feel" of the game. - Very few of the sample characters are built efficiently, which can mislead new players (particularly if they're joining a group where everybody has experience with the system, and as such has characters that are just plain better at what they do). - Linking powers leads to a lot of point-saving schemes and some wonky costs. We ended up just disallowing this, instead adding a "Powers are linked" weakness for concepts with a suite of related powers. All in all, it's a cool game, but we found it was better for one-shots than campaigns straight out of the book. We ended up going back to Champions for supers campaigns.</blockquote>

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